Whitney Sales
Founder of ThoughtForge
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Cofounder & CRO
2023 - Current
Driving the future of intelligent robotics control for safe, adaptive use. ThoughtForge's innovative Net Active Inference-based AI utilizes 90,000x less data than that needed by traditional machine learning approaches, trains in seconds, uses 1/36 of the compute, can be deployed on-prem and performs tasks as designed at a dynamic accuracy of 99.7%. We work with Energy, Aerospace, Manufacturing and Robotics companies looking to safely and accurately deploy autonomous robots in dynamic, unpredictable real-world environments. Customers see a 200x ROI when compared to traditional approaches. We have been researched, tested and are ready for field deployment. If you're interested in learning more check us out at thoughtforge.ai or shoot me an email at whitney@thoughtforge.ai
Advisor + Investor
2022
We are on a mission to bring human-like intelligence to robots and enable subject matter experts to teach resilient skills to robots.
Raised $1,175,000.00 from Sentiero Ventures, Forum Ventures, Character and Dasein Capital.
Founder / Creator
2014
Early-stage GTM advisory practice focused on increasing sales velocity and driving capital-efficient growth. See references below.
Startup Mentor
2016
LAUNCH Founder University, founded by Jason Calacanis, is a two-day curriculum for founders who have launched their product but haven't raised Series A.
Cofounder & Partner (Seed Fund)
2019 - 2023
Forum Ventures® is a leading early-stage fund for B2B SaaS startups based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders.
Managing Partner (Accelerator)
2017 - 2020
Forum Ventures® is a leading early-stage fund for B2B SaaS startups based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto. Founded in 2014, we’re on a mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders.
Forum Ventures is a fund, program, platform, and community for B2B SaaS startups.
Advisor
2020 - 2023
Rapid deployment of industrial robotics and automation without custom code.
SVT Robotics is a warehouse automation software intended to become a bridge between businesses and automation.
Raised $30,600,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Schematic Ventures, Prologis Ventures and 9Yards Capital.
Advisor
2021 - 2023
Gain real-time insights and actionable data from millions of unstructured media datasets.
PeakMetrics is a narrative intelligence platform that helps organizations identify and combat emerging online narrative threats.
Raised $5,720,000.00 from CEAS Investments, York IE, Parameter Ventures, Argon Ventures, Argon Ventures, CEAS Investments, Gaingels and Gutbrain Ventures.
Investor + Advisor
2021 - 2023
Vision AI for smarter fulfillment operations. Instant insights. Simple automation. Achieve 100% accuracy in every order.
Rabot offers an AI platform for companies to achieve visibility and insights for packing operations and operation workflow automation.
Raised $7,099,998.00 from ValueStream Ventures.
Sales Coach - Entrepreneurial Sales (CN 1932)
2020 - 2023
Coach|TA for Entrepreneurial Sales and GTM course. Mark Roberge & Lou Shipley: How to sell and manage GTM functions within entrepreneurial settings for HBS students.
Advisor
2020 - 2023
Autonomous cloud platform to match, monitor, and reconcile payment data across the entire lifecycle of money movement. Request Demo
No-Code Automation Platform for Finance & Payment Teams
Advisor + Investor
2020 - 2023
craft.co - Data and analytics platform for professionals. Craft is a machine-learning powered data and analytics platform building the “Source of Truth” on companies and mapping the global economy. The company organizes financial, operating and human capital data from thousands of sources to provide comprehensive, up-to-date sector and company profiles, ranging from early-stage to the largest companies in the world, with analytics and tools such as signal alerts, trends and benchmarking. Founded by Stanford GSB, EVP Crunchyroll, VP @ Venrock Series A funded by Uncorked
Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Raised $42,000,000.00 from ServiceNow Ventures, Stacey Epstein, Point Field Partners, High Alpha, Edith Harbaugh, BAM Elevate, Uncork Capital, Greycroft and Frederic Kerrest.